Overview
- Provides in-depth accounts of the inner working of two pioneering Australian inner urban eco-communities
- Scrutinises urban eco-villages through the contextual lenses of utopianism and sustainability
- Offers an anthropological perspective on urban eco-community building
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Keywords
- Urban Eco-villages in Australia
- Sustainable Communities in Australia
- Urban Ecotopianism
- Ecotopian Projects in Australia
- Urban Utopias in Australia
- Communal Experiments in Urban Sustainability
- Sustainable Community Initiatives
- Urban Sustainability in Australia
- Rurification
- Eco-villages and Gentrifiction
- Eco-city Visions for Future Australia
- Environmental Anthropology in Australia
- Ontology and Ecology of Urban Eco Projects
- Urban Responses to Climate Change
- Utopian Initiatives in Australia
- Utopian Projects in Australia
- Ecotopian Responses to Climate Change
- Anthropology of Eco Communities
- Challenges of Urban Utopias
- Eco-communities in Capitalist Society
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Hans A. Baer is a Principal Honorary Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of Social Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne. Hans has published some 20 books and 190 book chapters and articles on topics including Mormonism, African-American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical health anthropology, medical pluralism in the US, UK, and Australia, the critical anthropology of climate change and Australian climate politics. His books include Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health (with Merrill Singer, 2009), Global Capitalism and Climate Change (2012), Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia (with Verity Burgmann, 2012), The Anthropology of Climate Change (with Merrill Singer, 2014) and Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia (2018). Hans earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Utah and has taught at several US colleges and universities, at Humboldt University in East Berlin as a Fulbright Lecturer and at the Australian National University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Eco-Communities in Australia
Book Subtitle: Real Utopian Responses to the Ecological Crisis or Niche Markets?
Authors: Liam Cooper, Hans A. Baer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1168-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1167-3Published: 14 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4579-1Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1168-0Published: 28 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 225
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Human Geography, Urban Ecology, Sustainable Development